Unheard Voices from the Workplace

In the Kitchen – My First Job

I think the first thing I can say about my first job is when I moved to the United States, I didn’t understand the language. That’s why I could not communicate with others. Let´s start.

My first work in this country was at the kitchen in a restaurant, which is a very regular and normal part of life for people that don´t have legal status. I want a better job in the future, but I need to work in the restaurant for now.

The point here is that the chef is a native speaker from here. When he wanted to say something about the job I did not understand and I could not respond back. That´s why I understood that is necessary to learn English.

Fernando Angelo Ixcoy is from Guatemala. He is studying English at the Harlem Library. He hopes to go to college and study finance.